Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

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Jean Bonna, b. 1945

Renaissance et modernité du livre illustré : Ouvrages remarquable de la collection de Jean Bonna, Geneva, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 2005, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers


Jean Bonna, b. 1945

Vérène de Diesbach‐Soultrait, Six siècles de littérature française. XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque Jean Bonna, Geneva-Paris, Librairie Droz, 2010, 2 vols.


Jean Bonna, b. 1945

Vérène de Diesbach‐Soultrait, Six siècles de littérature française : XVe siècle, Bibliothèque Jean Bonna, Geneva, Librairie Droz, 2018


Jean Bonna, b. 1945

Vérène de Diesbach‐Soultrait, Six Siècles de littérature françoise: XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque Jean Bonna, Geneva‐Paris, [J. Bonna; "Catalogue imprimé aux frais de Jean Bonna sur les presses de Jean Genoud, au Mont-sur-Lausanne, et réservé à une diffusion privée"], 2007, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt


Jean Bonna, b. 1945

Édouard Graham, Passages d'encre: Échanges littéraires dans la bibliothèque Jean Bonna. Envois, lettres et manuscrits autographes 1850‐1900, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 2008, 4to., publisher's printed paper wrappers


Rodolfo Molo

Antoine Coron, De Goya à Max Ernst: Livres illustrés de la bibliothèque, R[odolfo] M[olo], Bever, Switzerland, Editions du Fourmilier, 2018, large fol., publisher's blue cloth, edition limited to 800 copies, copy no. 613


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